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* ActorAllusion: Expect some very knowing dialogue whenever the guest star is anybody famous for something other than acting.
** Gary Barlow appeared as a diamond smuggler weeks/months before the Music/TakeThatBand reunion, and his dialogue referred to having once been in a band that split up.
** When Brian Hibbard, formerly lead singer of The Flying Pickets, appeared as a guest star, the episode's final scene was accompanied by their 1983 number one "Only You", breaking the show's usual convention of only using music up to the early 70s.
** Guest appearances by members of The Animals and Lulu inevitably had them sing their best-known songs, "House of the Rising Sun" and "To Sir With Love" respectively.
* AdaptationDecay: Originally a vehicle for Nick Berry, who, at that time was a very popular soap actor, the show lingered on for many years with ever-slipping production standards, second and third-string casting and less resemblance to its original form to a watered-down version of ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.



* RealSongThemeTune: "Heartbeat", originally a hit for Music/BuddyHolly which charted in the UK in 1959 and 1960. The TV series used a cover version sung by the actor who played Nick Rowan.

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* RealSongThemeTune: "Heartbeat", originally a hit for Music/BuddyHolly which charted in the UK in 1959 and 1960. The TV series used a cover version sung by the actor who played Nick Rowan.Rowan.

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* PlayingAgainstType: Gwen Taylor took the role of Peggy Armstrong as it gave her an opportunity to play a nasty character for once. She later expressed disappointment at Peggy being softened up in her second season.

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** The curmudgeonly Oscar Blaketon is a long way removed from Creator/DerekFowlds' other famous role as the friendly, pedantic Bernard Woolley in ''Series/YesMinister''.
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Gwen Taylor took the role of Peggy Armstrong as it gave her an opportunity to play a nasty character for once. She later expressed disappointment at Peggy being softened up in her second season.
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* AdaptationDecay: Originally a vehicle for Nick Berry, who, at that time a very popular soap actor, the show lingered on for many years with ever-slipping production standards, second and third-string casting and less resemblance to its original form of a watered-down version of ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.

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* AdaptationDecay: Originally a vehicle for Nick Berry, who, at that time was a very popular soap actor, the show lingered on for many years with ever-slipping production standards, second and third-string casting and less resemblance to its original form of to a watered-down version of ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.
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* AdaptationDecay: Originally a vehicle for Nick Rowan, at that time a very popular soap actor, the show lingered on for many years with ever-slipping production standards, second and third-string casting and less resemblance to its original form of a watered-down version of ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.

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* AdaptationDecay: Originally a vehicle for Nick Rowan, Berry, who, at that time a very popular soap actor, the show lingered on for many years with ever-slipping production standards, second and third-string casting and less resemblance to its original form of a watered-down version of ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Gwen Taylor took the role of Peggy Armstrong as it gave her an opportunity to play a nasty character for once. She later expressed disappointment at Peggy being softened up in her second season.

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* PlayingAgainstType: Gwen Taylor took the role of Peggy Armstrong as it gave her an opportunity to play a nasty character for once. She later expressed disappointment at Peggy being softened up in her second season.season.
* RealSongThemeTune: "Heartbeat", originally a hit for Music/BuddyHolly which charted in the UK in 1959 and 1960. The TV series used a cover version sung by the actor who played Nick Rowan.
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** Guest appearances by members of The Animals and Lulu inevitably had them sing their best-known songs, "House of the Rising Sun" and "To Sir With Love" respectively.
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* TheDanza: Nick Berry as Nick Rowan.

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* TheDanza: Nick Berry as Nick Rowan.Rowan; David Lonsdale as David Stockwell.
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* AdaptationDecay: Originally a vehicle for Nick Rowan, at that time a very popular soap actor who made the mistake of believing his own advertising, the show lingered on for many years with ever-slipping production standards, second and third-string casting and less resemblance to its original form of a watered-down version of ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.

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* AdaptationDecay: Originally a vehicle for Nick Rowan, at that time a very popular soap actor who made the mistake of believing his own advertising, actor, the show lingered on for many years with ever-slipping production standards, second and third-string casting and less resemblance to its original form of a watered-down version of ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.
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** Gary Barlow appeared as a diamond smuggler some time before the Music/TakeThat reunion, and his dialogue referred to having once been in a band that split up.

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** Gary Barlow appeared as a diamond smuggler some time weeks/months before the Music/TakeThat Music/TakeThatBand reunion, and his dialogue referred to having once been in a band that split up.
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* AdaptationDecay: Originally a vehicle for Nick Rowan, at that time a very popular soap actor who made the mistake of believing his own advertising, the show lingered on for many years with ever-slipping production standards, second and third-string casting and less resemblance to its original form of a watered-down version of "AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall".

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* AdaptationDecay: Originally a vehicle for Nick Rowan, at that time a very popular soap actor who made the mistake of believing his own advertising, the show lingered on for many years with ever-slipping production standards, second and third-string casting and less resemblance to its original form of a watered-down version of "AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall".''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall''.
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* ActorAllusion: Expect some very knowing dialogue whenever the guest star is anybody famous for something other than acting.
** Gary Barlow appeared as a diamond smuggler some time before the Music/TakeThat reunion, and his dialogue referred to having once been in a band that split up.
** When Brian Hibbard, formerly lead singer of The Flying Pickets, appeared as a guest star, the episode's final scene was accompanied by their 1983 number one "Only You", breaking the show's usual convention of only using music up to the early 70s.
* AdaptationDecay: Originally a vehicle for Nick Rowan, at that time a very popular soap actor who made the mistake of believing his own advertising, the show lingered on for many years with ever-slipping production standards, second and third-string casting and less resemblance to its original form of a watered-down version of "AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall".
* TheCastShowoff: Tricia Penrose gets to sing every now and again.
* TheDanza: Nick Berry as Nick Rowan.
* PlayingAgainstType: Gwen Taylor took the role of Peggy Armstrong as it gave her an opportunity to play a nasty character for once. She later expressed disappointment at Peggy being softened up in her second season.

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